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  • Resistance 2010: No Olympic Games on Stolen Indigenous Lands
    18 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    RESISTANCE 2010! - No Olympics on stolen land! - Disrupt and abolish the G8 and SPP - Active support and solidarity for local struggles of self-determination, justice and dignity
    In the year 2010, three major international events will be taking place in the Canadian state: the Winter Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler (between February 12-28); the G8 Leader’s Summit in Huntsville, Ontario (most likely in June or July); and the meeting of the NAFTA leaders as part of the so-called "Security and (…)

  • US Won’t Get a Gold Medal for Human Rights
    18 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Pat LaMarche
    Are we really having discussions about whether or not to participate in the 2008 Olympics? Are people actually sitting in coffee shops discussing whether the civil rights violations in China warrant a U.S. boycott of the opening ceremonies or even the games themselves?
    Man, this country really cracks me up.
    Extraordinary men and women, the absolute cream of our athletic crop, who have — for likely as long as they’ve walked — trained for the moment when they could (…)

  • Aryan ideals, not ancient Greece, were the inspiration behind flame tradition
    8 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andy McSmith
    There is a two-word answer to those who think the Olympic torch is a symbol of harmony between nations that should be kept apart from politics – Adolf Hitler.
    The ceremony played out on the streets of Paris yesterday did not originate in ancient Greece, nor even in the 19th century, when the Olympic movement was revived. The entire ritual, with its pagan overtones, was devised by a German named Dr Carl Diem, who ran the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
    Although he was not a (…)

  • True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu. Awesome Videos!!!
    13 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu. Awesome Videos!!!
    True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu! Video Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Adg7KEqxPU&feature=related
    True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu Video Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY_E73HqnPc&feature=related
    True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu Video Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYvig13hDWs&feature=related
    True Power Of Shaolin Kung-Fu Video Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS6fvb9XKuY&feature=related
    True Power Of Shaolin (…)

  • SPORTS NICKNAMES: HARMLESS OR RACIST?
    22 October 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The late scholar and author W.E.B. DuBois once wrote, “The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.”
    Sadly, it is also the problem of the Twenty-First Century as demonstrated by a majority of so-called “justices” on the current United States Supreme Court whose racism is so blatant they had the audacity to cite the case of Brown vs. Topeka, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools, to reinstitute racial segregation in public schools.
    Although the (…)

  • China to Force Rain Ahead of Olympics By Associated Press
    22 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    China to Force Rain Ahead of Olympics By Associated Press 1:36 PM PDT, April 25, 2007
    BEIJING — Chance of showers during the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 50 percent. But Chinese meteorologists have a plan to bring sunshine. The meteorologists say they can force rain in the days before the Olympics, through a process known as cloud-seeding, to clean the air and ensure clear skies. China has been tinkering with artificial rainmaking for decades, but whether it works is a matter of debate among (…)

  • Learning the Hardaway
    24 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    Grey’s Anatomy star Isaiah Washington called a co-star a faggot and ended up in rehab, while former basketball star Tim Haraway said he hated homosexuals and now his career as an ex-jock pitchman is on a cold slab. This will be remembered as the year the F-word became the new N-word and homophobic comments were no longer considered acceptable in polite company. To be sure, America has not endorsed homosexuality, but the new rules do mean celebrities will lose endorsements if (…)

  • Man fuel: Is it in you?
    14 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Of Savage Imperialism, Pigskin Monopolists, and Intellectual Emasculation
    By Jason Miller
    "Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses."
    Juvenal
    Searching for masculine bliss incarnate?
    Look no further than NFL football and its myriad machismo delights….
    Fierce armor-clad gladiators applying wicked hits, battering each other relentlessly, engaging in bone-jarring collisions, and performing feats of near super-human athleticism….
    Provocatively undressed (…)

  • Matt Norman, Peter’s nephew who write to Bellaciao and the Margaret Rees’s article
    11 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hello All,
    I wanted to thank all of you for your kind words and incredible support for my best friend and uncle Peter Norman. I am Matt Norman, Peter’s nephew who has just completed a feature film about Peter’s life and the struggle that he, Tommie and John went through during the 60’s.
    I want you all to know that I have had hundreds of letters of support from French people which is very moving to me. French people seem to have a true heart, a true spirit, a true moral to the worlds (…)

  • Saints and the Superdome
    1 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dave Zirin
    New Orleans is a city that suffers in silence. These days, it feels like a city being strangled in slow motion, a city whose current condition makes a lie of every political platitude preached over the past year. Yet ESPN spent four hours Monday trying to make us believe that the Crescent City—through the magic of sports and the return of the New Orleans Saints—is on the verge of resurrection.
    The symbol of deliverance, we were told repeatedly during the broadcast, was the (…)